Example sentences of "[verb] him so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could Lisa know him so well , when she herself had been so naïvely blind ? |
| 2 | She craved it ; she wanted to taste him and touch him so much … |
| 3 | What was absorbing him so deeply , I realize as I go by , was the sight of his own living-room , with the curtains innocently open , and his wife and Millie moving silently about the bright world inside . |
| 4 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 5 | But erm the lads have got together and Clarkie scored erm four goals today so , we have n't missed him so much so far . |
| 6 | She could picture him so clearly , sitting waiting at the airport , that she ground her teeth at one point , made spitting noises . |
| 7 | He did not think that anyone at St Basil 's had even noticed him so far . |
| 8 | The hot sting of tears pricked painfully at her eyes as the agony of hating him and yet wanting him so desperately all at the same time overwhelmed her . |
| 9 | THERE is nothing more humiliating than loving him so much that you forgive the infidelities . |
| 10 | Maria paused , looking at him and loving him so much it hurt . |
| 11 | The mother-daughter relationship he had witnessed in London had moved him so profoundly that he had fallen in love with them both . |
| 12 | He was taken over by it as he had been by the piety which had moved him so completely in St Kentigern 's . |
| 13 | But the reason she obeyed him so readily was not financial . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , Paul is saying that Jesus ' death affected him so profoundly that by standing in his shadow he is forgiven and justified . |
| 15 | The van loaded with newspapers appeared in the gates , its sinister gleaming look telling everyone to hate it ; the pickets surged forward , shouting ; and there was Jasper , as she had seen him so often , his pale face distorted with a look of abstracted and dedicated hate , his reddish crop of gleaming hair . |
| 16 | It would be particularly depressing if Mr Major were to strive to ‘ move to the centre ’ ideologically to show sensitivity to the voters who snubbed him so roundly across the country in the recent council elections . |
| 17 | I keep my distance and do not look at him , though from the comer of my eye I can see him so smartly attired , decked out in scarves and jumpers , set to brace the cold and the street at any hour . |
| 18 | I owe him so much ’ |
| 19 | Jonadab Oaks might be as lean and sinewy as ever , with muscles as firm and trim as in his youth , but age had taken its toll and he was not the equal of his son , who now faced him so challengingly , ‘ There 's nowt for me ti apologise for , ’ he said firmly . |
| 20 | Poor little Willie was fairly screaming the place down and banging on the barred window that separated him so carefully from the world . |
| 21 | I do remember him so well . ’ |
| 22 | It is easy to see why Richard Strauss admired him so much : there is not only the immense natural craftsmanship , but an ease of invention comparable to his own and indeed in one or two places containing suggestions of some of his own harmonic manner . |
| 23 | I 've told him so anyway . |
| 24 | I know how he interpreted it and I have told him so often about how it was . |
| 25 | It would not be simple at all , because nothing she had told him so far had been trusted . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've told him so perfectly frankly . |
| 27 | Seldom before have England needed him so badly as they go into tomorrow 's third Test in Bombay already beaten 2-0 in the series by India . |
| 28 | A seventeenth-century libertine who wrote excellent satirical verse ( he 's the author of the famous epigram about Charles II : ‘ God bless our good and gracious king/Whose promise none relies on ; /Who never said a foolish thing , /Nor ever did a wise one ’ — one of the reasons I like him so much is that allegedly he recited it extempore to the king ) and some great , great poems about sex . |
| 29 | In spite of her rags and the marquis 's rough treatment , he had never seen a more entrancing girl , nor one who had affected him so instantly . |
| 30 | Sien had ‘ that Dolorosa expression ’ which had affected him so deeply when he had seen it depicted in the picture Woman in Mourning . |